The individuals of Aba-Ngwa, underneath the aegis of the Aba Ngwa Peoples Discussion board, have cried out about some studies on social media that claimed that indigenes of Aba-Agwa tried to cease the Port Harcourt street contract awarded to Julius Berger Nig PLC.
The group, which addressed the press on Wednesday, mentioned the rumours that they demanded compensation from contractors earlier than the necessary Port Harcourt street might be reconstructed have been sponsored by enemies of Aba Ngwa indigenes to delay the street challenge.
In a communiqué issued and signed by Chimezie Nwagba, President, and Chinedu Ahuruonye, Secretary of the discussion board, after their assembly at Obuda Neighborhood Corridor, Aba South LGA, the group urged the Abia State authorities to fish out the sponsors of the faux studies.
They made it clear that they by no means barricaded Port Harcourt Highway in demand for financial compensation, nor have been they detained in Umuahia on the orders of Governor Alex Otti, as falsely reported on social media.
“We condemn a budget blackmail orchestrated in opposition to us and curse all these behind it.
We demand that the identities of those that have been purportedly arrested be made public for correct scrutiny,” the group railed.
They known as upon the Abia State Authorities to make sure that work begins on the Port Harcourt Highway website, stressing that contractors are but to start work on the street after it was flagged off.
The Aba-Ngwa indigenes mentioned they might at all times help each infrastructural exercise in Aba and wouldn’t sabotage the efforts of the state authorities.
In accordance with the group: “As progressive-minded individuals, we’ll proceed to help each effort at constructing and restoring infrastructure in Aba and might by no means be a cog within the wheel of growth of Aba, our lovely land and Abia State generally, figuring out that we stand to profit most when Aba roads are constructed as a result of we have now no different residence than Aba.”
The discussion board known as on all of the residents of Aba to ignore the sponsored blackmail in opposition to the Aba-Ngwa individuals, stressing that they’re extra wanting to see their land totally developed than some other particular person.
DAILY POST remembers that the Particular Assistant on Public Communications to Governor Alex Otti, Dodoh Okafor, denied the social media studies that claimed that Governor Alex Otti allegedly ordered the locking up of youths and elders who tried to cease the street challenge.
The governor’s aide, in an announcement he issued, mentioned the faux tales have been concocted and deceptive.